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[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 115 points 10 months ago (4 children)

If you knew anything about Soviet Union, you'd know that number is correct. During 50s, SU started Project Red Loop, in which people were given immortality serum and repeatably killed in various ways, to test it's military potential. Some test subjects were killed over 50k times.

fuck everything else, this guy's spittin. soviets defeated death but used it to do more murder.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 65 points 10 months ago

Yeah that comment gets the order-of-lenin from me.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago

Deathloop players know this.

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[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 99 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

youre-laughing you're laughing? The Soviet Union killed between 1 and 1,000,000,000 people, and you're laughing??

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 85 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No matter how outlandish the Black Book death count is, its always way less than even a conservative estimate of deaths caused by capitalism. The British Empire alone tops these numbers

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 79 points 10 months ago

500% margin of error, pretty standard

[–] Crowtee_Robot@hexbear.net 64 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So casualties from several wars as a minimum, plus another 98 million "mystery deaths".

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 58 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My guess is every surplus death in a third world country where the Soviet Union supported a revolution.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 60 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Add in the people murdered by anticommunist military dictatorships, because why not?

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They wouldnt have to be anticomnunists if communists didnt exist!

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago

I mean all of the stuff in general is how you get these numbers. The actual Black Book counting includes the unborn children of killed nazis in it's kill count

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 53 points 10 months ago

Hey, they topped 100m without dropping mao.

[–] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 51 points 10 months ago (3 children)

123,456,789 lives erased by communism.

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[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 48 points 10 months ago

Stalin is still to this day stealing your food with his giant spoon straight from his grave, the communist elite are more fascist than Hitler ever was stalin-comical-spoon

[–] oregoncom@hexbear.net 48 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Whenever people share sources like this "from a university" I just look at the directory they shared from.

https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/ It didn't disappoint this time

apparently it was collated by a dead ghoul (rest in piss) called Rudolph Rummel, who dedicated his life to this. Unsurprisingly he also supported the mass murder of Iraqis by the US government.

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[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago

You know, now that I look at this you don't even need an upper bound.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Actually it’s between 150 million and 300 million deaths.

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